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r- - : -m & ---'-a '- m ' .. " " ' 1 - t- - i am s , f il, i! - H it 4 tit SO. -V . . , t ,i 1 .vilU.il. in ft ti'i.i: -df ; OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXI. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY )4, 1882. VOLUME Xlt NUM.BER : 584 0 i lr i g if " ' ' ft P - . r A . -. i . s4 1 W 1 k." - . ...... ff ,-..zr" m it mii hi i ni ni r-N J v I' Jv dm THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published every Fbidat by J. 1. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor. o Terms Two Dollars for one year. One Dollar for six months. Subscription price due in advance. . o "Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte. N. C., as second class matter," according to the rules of the P. O. Department ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE, Fifth and Try on Streets. RESIDENCE, Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. March 17, 1832. tf C. DR. T. C SMITH, Drugeist and Pharmacist, lv'H p ii fu'.l line of Puie Drugs and Chemicals, Wliito Leid and Colors, Machine and Tanners' Oils, Patoirt Medicines, (Jarden seeds, and every thing pertaining to the I)ru business, which he will sell at low prices. March 8, 1881. J. P. McCombs, M. D , oir.-rs his professionil services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, hoth night and day, promptly attended to. Ollke in Brown's Imilding, up stairs, opposite Mm: Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1HH2. A V,i:ilWKI,I, P. D. WALKER. BUR WELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts, OHce adjoining Court House. Nov r, i.si. JOHN E. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Oi i k k on Trade Street, opposite the Court JIomsc, No. 1, Sims & Dowd's building. l),c 2:J, 1881 y DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Ofliee in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte 1 1, .tel. (las used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb 15,1882. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. fratstice Limited to the SGYE, EAR AND THROAT, March 18, 1881. DR. J. M MILLER, Charlott6, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Oflicc at A. J. Beall & Co's store on corner .of College and Trade streets Residence opposite W. 11. Myers'. Jan. 1, I8.S2. ..i. s sn;xc i:H. j. c. smith J. S. SPENCER & CO., Wholesale Grocers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Ti'adc IStrect, Charlotte, N. C. May 1!), 1882. WILSON & BURWELL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Druggists, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything pertaining to the Drug Business, to which they invite the attention of all. buyers both wholesale ami rclail. Oft 7,181. HALES & PARRIOR, Practical Witch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keeps a full stock of hasdsomc Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles; &c which they sell at fair 1 1 rices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks',' &c done promptly, and satisfaction assured. More next to Springs' corner building. July 1,1881. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, .hyrups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Mains, lour, Uruss Seeds, Plows, &c, which we oiler to both the Wholesale and Retail trade. All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar gest buyers. .Ian 1, 1882. j. Mclaughlin, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, &c, iJollege Street, Charlotte, N. C. Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. 13?" Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. Nov. 1, 1881. TORRENCE & BAILEY, Commission Merchants, Colleyc St., Charlotte, N. C, Handle Grain, Hay, Flour, Bran, Cow Peas, Ac. Agents for the "EUREKA" GUANO. March 10, 1882. HARRISON WATTS, Cotton Buyer, Comer Trade and College Sts., up Stairs. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. 14, 1881. Z Ji. Vance. W. H. Bailey. VANOE & BAILEY, Attorneys ana Counsellors CHARLOTTE, K. : Practices in Supreme Court of United States, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan, and Davidson. Office, two doors east of independ ence Square. june 17-tf The Blue op the Sky. The blue of the sky aud the blueish tinge of distant ob jects has been shown to be owing to fine bubbles of water in the air. The more delicate the walls of these hollow spheres the clearer and deeper is the blue ; as they condense, their hue shades off more to the gray and white, as seen finally in the clouds. Hence, in warm and dry regions the blue of the sky is more intense ; in cool and moist ones, less so, and on con siderable elevations the heavens look al most black, and the stars are visible at midday. To Soldeb Cast Iron. Soldering cast iron is generally considered, to be very difficult, but it seems to be only a ques tion of thoroughly brightening the surface to be soldered, and using a good 6older and a clean swab with muriatic acid. Sodium amalgam might be usefully employed for the purpose. GOLD MINES TO BE SOLD! Pursuant to the terms ot a Mortgage to us exe cuted and registered in the Register's Office in Oaston County, North Carolina, Book No. 2, and rages 208 to 271, we will sell at Public Auction, at the Court House, in Dallas, in said county, for cash, on Tuesday, July 25th 1882, that valuable property known as tbe" L,UJN(i CUEJfiK." UULU MINES, including the Asbury and McArthur Mines, ana 51)0 Acres of land on which the Mines are located ; Also, a Steam Engine and Fixtures erectec thereoD. Reference is made to the Registry of said Mort gage for a full description of tbe Lands, miles aud bonds. Other particulars will be furnished on application to the und rsigned. W. P. BYNUM, THOS. GRIER, June 3, 1S82. Gw Mortgagees. LAST NOTICE. All delinquent lax-pnyers are hereby notified, ior the last time, that tney must come up and settle for their taxes. I have been as indulgent aud forbearing as any one could exixct me to be, and I give fair notice now that all delinquent taxes remaining unpaid at 1he end of the next 30 days, will be collected by distraint. Come up and pay your taxes. M. E. ALEXANDER, June 30, 1882. Sheriff. NOTICE. . The undersigned offer for sale or lease the buildings and grounds in the suburbs ot Char lotte, N. C, where the N. C. Military Institute formerly was carried on, and where for the last nine years, the Carolina Military Institute has been conducted. The buildings and grounds, arc in good repair. No where in the South are there any superior for the purposes of a JLSUAKUIWU SCHOOL of a high grade. For terms, &c, address ALEXANDER, CARSON & SANDERS. June 30, 1882, 1882. J882. SPRING STYLE HATS. PEGRAM & CO. have received and are daily receiving a beautiful line of Uents' fsilk, Stilt and Felt HATS. Don't fail to call and see them. PEGRAM & CO. March 3, 1882. BLACKSMITHING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, AND WORK WARRANTED. I have a Wood-shop connected with my busi ness, and will make and repair Wagons of all kinds. Buggies repaired neatly and quickly. J. K. PUREFOY, College street, Charlotte, N. C. April 7, 1882. ly AT THE RISING SUN. C. S. Holton Has in store a fine lot of Lemons, Apples, and a fresh lot of Candies. Call and see them. C. S. HOLTON. March 17. 1882. TO THE INTEREST OF Our Patrons. Jast received, a large lot of LAWNS IN MOIRE EFFECTS. We invite your special inspection of our large Stock of Black Dress Goods, Embracing every thing in that line, Black Silks, SaUus, Satin De Lyons, Mervillcux and Radamah Satins, Moires, &c. Our stock of Colored Dress Goo!s and Trimmings is also complete. Our line of WHITE GOODS Cannot be beat. Ask to see our figured and cob ored Mulis. We have the cheapest stock of Para sols in the State, look at them before you buy, We have a large line of new designs in Ladies' Neck Wear. Look at our Corset for $1. Sarah Bernhardt and Foster Kids, Lace Nets in black and colors. We have a stock to meet the demands of every one. If you don't see what you want just call for it. The young men will find a handsome stock of Clothing, Straw and Fur Hats, on our counters, and if you want something nice come down and get the newest thing, an ' Oscar Wilde" Collar. The Ladies will find a line of New Fans on our counters, and some of them are just "too too." Prompt attention to orders. - . , HARGRAVES & WILHELM. April 14, 1882. OUR - -SPRING STOCK Is now ' Complete. Wholesale and Retail Buyers Are invited to examine it before making their purchases. Handsome Stock OF NEW CARPETS, Oil Cloths and Rugs. HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS a Specialty. The lai gest and cheapest stock of Embroideries In the City. Call March 17, 1882. and see them. Elias & Cohen. Scarr's Fruit Preservative. One 25 cent package will preserve 20 pounds Fruit. For sale by . - , R. H. JORDAN & CO., May 19, 1882. Druggists, Tryon Street, Seek Not Thine Own. Seek not thine own ; Live thou for others ; Live for thy brothers. And when the blast Of sorrow or temptation sweeps the sea of life, And hearts beat low amid the busy toil and strife, When joys are fled, When loves grow cold and hopes are dead, "Love thyself last." Stek not thine own ; In all the ages Heroes and sages By gifts are known. The world esteems them great and good who, living, shed The gift of light upon the world. They," being dead, Are living still, ' In monuments past human skill, Of brass or stone. - Seek not thine own ; Forever giving Is ever living, . While good endures. Fruitful, self-sacrifice, to Him the Father sent Shall get thee all. The world and bright-orbed firmament, Or life, or death, Lo ! the All-Giver, faithful, saitb, ' AH things are yours." Sly Deceptions. I was told a day or two ago of a New H.nland manufacturer who, wishing to realize more money from the sale ol his goods, put a little of what mill people call "shoody, a characterless article of waste, into the cloth, and forwarded the goods to their regular purchaser, felici tating himself that he, though a shrewd business man, probably would not detect the sham. It was but one or two days, nowever, oeiore me entire lot was re turned without a syllable of comment, and since then the deceitful mill man has not received an order from that house, while his cloth room is packed with the shoddy goods that he endeavored to sell for good ones, and the mill has been stopped "to reduce stock." Every one who has any sense of right and wrong will say that tlio tricky dealer was rightly dealt with: that he deserved to have every thread of the goods re turneu to mm witn ine contempt ot si lence : and that he should have sacrificed just what he was obliged to by his act Ana so should every one say ol any man that will thus sin against God and his fellow-man. But what a pity that any man or wo man should do anything so degrading! It is a pity none the less because this sort of action is so very pommoiij for men are doing in this just what the enemy of their souls desires them to do, and what God warns them not to do.- Notice the tendency of the age to de ceive to make certain things appear dif ferent lrom what they are, more to the financial gain of the person acting it is universal. It the manufacturer cannot make money out of goods honestly made, he must insert some element of sham, and pass the article off as a genuine produc- tion. We often have occasion to note this tendency in examining our shoes after they have been worn through. Pieces of paste-board will show themselves where leather should be ! I have frequently wondered if the man who had those things inserted professed to be a Chris tia 11. 1 need not reter to the many ways in which we perceive the successful cheat, I wish that the strong arm of the law might make itself lelt upon such men as thus deceive the people. All true men will reflect with pain on the personal de gradation, the price which these deceivers pay for their extra profits, and will mourn ti.Qt man roil ho ;n hlind tn thor hpat ?n- teresls as to do anything of the kind : for, although success of some sort may at- tonl th t.iiflfPrv. th tricksters will ba brought to light and to punishment at the hands of man at last, and in the judgment day will be brought where they can see what a crime they have committed. SPRING STYLES! We are now opening our new Spring and Summer Styles of MILLINERY, Including all the latest novelties in the Millinery line. Hats, Bonnets, Flowers, Plumes, Ribbons, Silks, Laces, &c., in all the new styles, colors and qualities. Also, all the new styles, and qualities of Laces, embracing White Goods, Neck Wear, Hosiery, Gloves, Parasols, &c, the largest and most com plete Stock in the City. We have opened our Pattern Hats and Bonnets, And will be pleased to show the Ladies the GRANDEST DISPLAY OF FINE MIL LINERY they have ever seen in this city. MRS. P. QUERY March 31, 1883. NEW FURNITURE Constantly Coming In, Which 1 will sell cheap for cash, both Wholesale and Retail. E. M. ANDREWS, Feb. 24, 1882. At White Front. Lanterns and Lamps. We have now on hand a fine stock of Lanterns and Glass Lamps. WILSON & BURWELL, Sept 30, 1881. Druggists. KNITTING YARN. Blue, Brown. Red and Slate KNITTING YARN In Hanks, at BARRINGER & TROTTER'S April 7, 1882. Dow Law Cotton Planters, Champion Reapers and Mowers, "Chieftain" Horse Rakes, Improved Deera Cultivator, (walking,) Thomas Smoothing Harrow, Davis Swing Churn, Roland Chilled Plows, Tennessee Wagons, All kinds of Farm Implements, Grass Seed of all kinds, Cane Mills and Evaperators, Farm Machinery, &c. J. G. SHANNONHOUSE, March 10, 1882. Agent.' Cattle Transportation. I Since the publication in the Herald of the article on Hvo stock transportati'-a, whictt, it will be remembered, advocated a radical change in "the present barbarous method of transporting cattle," as Bishop Clarkson, of Nebraska, termed it, vigorous and effective steps have been taken toward the introduction of such cars as were sug gested in that article. - A train of cars in which the animals are separated from each other, and the necessity for landing 'for feeding purposes is done away with and which can be run at the same speed as passenger cars, h'si been run from Chicago to New York. The cars are each forty feet long, in side measurement, or ten feet longer than the ordinary cattle car. Each car con tains sixteen stalls, eight of which face to one siJo and eight to the other. These stalls are 2 J feet id' width, 8 J feet in length agd H feet in height, allowing ample room for the largest steer to lie down' on and rise from at will his comfortable dried sand bed of an inch and a half thickness. They are separated by gates, which are cushioned, with spring fastenings, against which tne animal can lean without being bruised by the motion of the train, and relatively with almost as much ease and eomlort as a passenger enjoys in the cushion back seat of a passenger coach. For about one-sixth of the width of the car the gates are permanent and extend from the floor to the ceiling, but for the remainder of their length fold upward into the rigid section, thus making a free pas sage lor the cattle to pass out of or into the cars. The gates are dropped down, one at a time, as each animal is walked into its stall while the car is being loaded. The heads of the animals are between the stationary sections, so that "hooking" or quarreling about feed is effectually pre- vemei. in ironi oi uie oeasis, along tne 6ides of the car, are continuous troughs for feed and water. The food, which may be cut feed or dry hay, is easily introduced from the outside- by raising a hinged board that is upheld by a hook while the food is being placed, and afterward drop ped and fastened by another hook on the outside to preveut the feed from being thrown out. The water is received through an aperture in the top of the car, and is conveyed directly to the troughs through pipes. v hen the train reached the feeding station the cattle were first given all the water they would drink; as they had been well fed before leaving Chicago, and then a liberal supply of feed was piacea in tne troughs, ana the ani mals ate at their leisure as the train pro ceeded. By reason of all these conven iences the cars carried no dead weight in the tdiape of feed or water. This train was raaqe up oi ten cars, ihere was no 1 f ma trouble in driving the stock into their stalls and they look kindly to their sand beds, lhe scales in the Union yard showed that the lot weighed 226.09S pounds, making an average of 1,430 pounds ppr head. ' The train was got under way a few minutes after loading, aftertheanimals had been fed Toledo was the first watering place,and here the troughs were well supplied after the manner described above. Until Buf- lalo was reached there was no attempt at fast travelling. Here an ample Mipply of food and water was taken aboard, and from this point to New York the real test oi the new system was had. lhe train had the right oi way on the passenger track of the New York Central and Hud son River Railroad and the time made averaged equal to the passenger rate of speed. ihtrty miles was the common time made, but forty and forty-nve miles were frequently accomplished. During all these rapid spurts the animals did not seem at all disturbed. The motion of the cars was fully as easy as a passenger coach, and the difference between their motion ad lnat of the caboose attached to th train, which rattled and shook as though it would fall to pieces, was so great that the protection ol the cattle cars was sought by tbe persons on the train. Th e animals munched their food contentedly, and during the entire trip seemed almost entirely satisfied with their surroundings I here was no moaning and groaning among the beasts, as is heard on tbe cars of the present kind. When the train reached the yard in this city the cattle was driven out of the cars with an umbrella. Usually steel prods have to be used in forcing the exhausted bruised brutes to land. lhey were weighed before a number of gentlemen in terested in the experiment and were found to weigh 222,870 pound. Thus it will be seen that the shrinkage was 8,228 pounds on the lot or an average of only about 20 pounds. Everybody who examined the cattle at the stock yards expressed surprise at their well preserved condition. The animals could have been shipped at once had been necessary. N. Y. ITer&ld. it vioop 15eef. lhe best beet is young beef, reaching Us greatest point of supe riority at from two to three years. The same is true of sheep and swine. A weth er for the best mutton, should be marketed at two years. As a general rule, a two hundred and fifty pound pig is much bet ter in quality and more profitable than hog that weighs hve hundred pounds, lhe point of appreciation of quickly matured animals is being reached, though some what gradually, and it remains to improve the various breeds, especially regard being taken to carefully select those animals to breed from that come to maturity at an early age. Drover', Journal. Watermelon in Diaeuuoja. The watermelon contains about 95 per cent, of the purest water and a trace of the purest sugar, and nothing has yet been discover ed that furnishes so perfect and speedy a "cure" for summer complaint as water melon, and nothing else. Even when diarrhoea has been kept up by continued eating of ordinary food until the disease has become chronic this delicious bever age for it is little more watermelon, taken freely two or three times a day has again and again been known to work wonders, and to "care" when all the usual remedies had failed. Food and Health. Fraud ia American. Cotton. The English charges Oi fraud in Amer ican baled cotton have been investigated by the Textile Record of Philadelphia. and the ingenuity ot its correspondents in accounting on natural grounds for the presence of sand and stones in the baits is interesting. One suggestion is that In the crop of 1881, the dry weather pre vented the full growth ot the plant: that the bolla were borne near the ground, and wnen tney opened, every shower splashed ana ana airt into mem. Again it is said that the lint and sweepings of the floor are sometimes gathered up with the ginned cotton, while in still other cases the damp cotton collects tbe dust ot the gin house. But these explanations, which are plausible in themselves, do' not quite account ior tne small stones which one Conshohocken firm frequently finds in tbe bales, nor. for the "sand in such quan tities that it must have been sbouelled m," which it has found morerarelv. Nor liowever low the bolls may hang, ean bad weather be thought to splash into them me uricKS, large stones, iron and lence ails,whieh Gen. Robert Patterson, a very arge cotton spinner of Philadelphia, says ..1.11 m in it ne nas louna in the Dales, l akincr the whole evidence together, the cotton ...... . . a growers and Southern brokers are proba bly right in asserting that the vast ma joriiy oi petty adulterations by dirt can be accounted for on natural grounds, and wholly without fraud. They also claim that the sandy cotton which the Oldham spinners complain of, was cheap, and sold at a low price precisely because it was known to be badly ginned. Still, they cannot well deny-that a few unscrupulous plauters may purposely put wood, iron and stones into the bales to increase their weight; and it is to these few, doubtless, that Gen. Patterson refers when he says that "pretty much every thing but a dead nigger , has been found within cotton bales. lhe immediate necessity would seem to be that of exercising greater care m cleaning the cotton, now that an ad mi t ted carelessness has partly led to these charges. It would, perhaps, also help matters if the markings on the bales could be made more permanent, since, in the large maionty of cases, according to Gen. Patterson, they are entirely oblitera ted before reaching the consumer, if ever nit on at all, so that the palpable frauds are not traced to their perpetrators. Jy, 1 . Sun. They do not deny that a few unscrupu lous parties are guilty of dishonest prac tices in packing cotton, in comparison to the large number of persons engaged in handling the staple a very few, and do not include the large majority of our hon est square dealing plaLters. In like man ner the frauds every day detected by our merchants in stock purchased at the North, are in no way a compromise to the whole mercantile community. Ed. Home AND IJE5rOCKAT..J A Man of Mysrery. Speaking of Stewart, says a New York letter, his character and position remind one of the veiled prophet of Khorassan He was the hidden power of Broadway, but he preserved a peculiar secrecy which added to the interest connected with the veiled autocrat of trade. He never dis played a sign and never allowed his por trait or even a photograph to be taken. His clerks were not permitted to speak to him (except when making replies.) and only three men were allowed to enter his private office, unless summoned to his presence. This trio was composed of Judge Hilton, who then was a conhdentia friend, William Libby (then a partner,) and brown, the general manager. Hav preserved this veiled character so many years, it lollows him alter death His corpse is carried no one knows whith er, the business is discontinued, the Stew art disappears from the record of trade leaving nothing to perpetuate his name This is certainly a very strange history for a man who made $30,000,000 in Broad way traffic. K .. My Smoke-House." A man who lives in Albany, and whose business is that of a clerk, said that he had lately built a house that co6t him three thousand dollars. His friends expressed theirjwonder that he could afford to build so fine a dwelling. "Why," said he, "that is my smoke house." :"Your smoke-house! What do you mean ?" "Why, I mean that twenty years ago I left off smoking, and I have put the money saved from smoke, with the interest, into my house. Hence I call it my smoke house." Now, boys, we want you to think of this when you are tempted to take your first cigar. Think how much good-, might be done with the money you are beginning to spend in smoke. What would you think of a man who, to amuse himself, should light a paper twenty-five cents and watch it burn? Is it any more sensible to take for your quarter a roll of old, dry, brown leaves, light it, and see it smoke? Exchange. The Uses op Boys. Boys are the ter ror of cats, their mothers and their older sisters, but the cats would lead but a dull career without them ; while a mother would scarcely know what life really is if she was freed from the constant anxiety she feels about her boys. What unruffled but unprofitable hours of lazy enjoyment would fall to the lot of elder sisters were it not for their younger brothers. Sloth and eae and a mistaken belief that this world is not a world of annoyances, and discomforts would enervate their charac ters. Boys make them feel that we are not put here simply to enjoy ourselves, but to develop our characters. So with teachers. What a monotonous existence would be theirs were it not for the boys ! A teacher of girls alone would mistake earth for paradise, and so not having any use for heaveD, and not believing in any such place as a refuge from earthly miser ies would never try to get there. But, as a teacher of boys, every week looks for ward to a brighter world, makes good use of Sunday in fitting himself for it, and in hoping that he will get there sometime, to make up for trials here. The Big Timber of Western North Caro- . Una. : A correspondent writing from'4 nay- wood county, N. C, to the Raleigh' Re corder says : " k ' 1 Lumber companies from' Richmond. Iud., Columbia, Tenn., and Nashville, Tenn.. Baltimore. Md.. : Ahi Wellington, Ohio, Asheville and Hender- sonville, N. C, and other places, have been for months buying up the rich black walnut lumber in this and adjoining coun ties ; and many a noble old monarch of the forest is now bowing before the lura oerman'b saw or tbe woodman's axe. You have no conception of the magnitude of some oi tnese grand old forest trees in Hay wdod county. Last week I strolled out into the Francis Cove with some friends, and in two and a half toiles f .Wayhesville "sawr.what is known as "the Granny Poplar.'. It has been lying on the ground for years. The bark and sap are all rotted away, and it is now covered with moss. Still, the heart of the tree as it lay upon thenrround was higher than my head. Mr. Herren in formed me that while standing, and soon atter it leu, it was measured by Prof Guyot and ascertained to be 45 feet in cir cumference. In the game cove stands a 11 1 t . ... ' . . ; uiacK wainut, wnicn has since been cut down by the Mitchell Lumber Co., of In diana (who have bought 100 walnut trees in the cove,) and measured. Its dimen sions by measurement are: At the ground 28 feet and 10 inches in circumference two and a half feet above gronnd 25 feet 9 inches in circumference ; and seven and a half feet above ground 19 feet 10 inches in circumference; and at the first fork. which is 40 leet above ground, 14 feet in circumference. One ol the roots of the tree has been dug up which measures 12 leet in length and 41 inches in circumfer ence. Another wainut has just been cut down in the same cove that measures 13 feet 3 inches in circumference and the first limb is 92 feet from the ground. And still another measures 14 feet and 1 inches and the body of the tree is 87 feet in lengtl to the first limb. In the same forest, 1 saw chestnut, cucumber and hickory trees ot incredible size. One hollow chestnut measured at the ground the enormous size of 51 leet in circumference. I have seen in this county a house of respectable di i?i . j. mensions wnicn was made out ot one chestnut treet. Black Walnut timber here three years ago was worth about At n n 111 V $i.uu per nunored, and was counted as worth no more than chestnut, oak or hickory. There are fortunes in these mountain forests of North Carolina, and yet most of the finest walnut timber has already been sold to parties outside of the State, and some of it as low as seventy-five cents a tree. The Cup that Cheers. There is, perhaps, no beverage the world over so popular as the cup of tea, so potent to brace the nerves, so conducive to domestic comfort and cheerful, innocent gossip. If one has a headache, is chilled or weary, the cup of tea revitalizes and kindles the exhausted flame of energy and spirits ; it is the small currency of hospi tality. Is it not the gentle tea leaf which brings kindred spirits together ? Has not one of the most important and social meals of the day taken its name from that insin uating plant? What is home without a cup ot tea ? And when would the 5 o'clock tea have found favor or votaries under any other name ? Is it not the mov ing spirit of the sewing-circle ? and who ever heard of a fortune being told from coffee grounds or chocolate dregs ? Is any cordial more delicious than iced tea on a Bcorcliing July day ? In Southey's di vision of his day's work it was tea which ushered in poetry, while Dr. Johnson may have flavored many an essay with the effusion, and who can tell but we owe "Rasselas" to its exhilarating effects, "when with tea be amused the 'evening. with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning?" Like woman's rights and other eternal verities, it had a battle to fight before acquiriug its present position in the world. It was prescribed by physicians, denounced by the essayists, sneered at by the wits and poets. It was supposed to provoke scandal, and even to this day the suspicion is not obsolete. Yet a present of tea was thought to be suit able for royalty to receive, since in 1664 we are told that the East India compauy sent the queen two pounds! It was doubtless reserved for high days and holidays in early times, and was not poured out for poor relations, nor sent into the kitchen ; but familiarity, instead of dam aging its reputation, has recommended it to greater favor ; and the poor working people who allow themselves no luxuries regard the cup of tea as a friend and neces sity. "I am glad I was not born .before tea," said Sydney Smith, one of whose recipes against melancholy is a kettle singing on tbe hob. As there ia a right way to bon an egg, so there is a right way to prepare the stimulating beverage. In China , the wealthy make it by pouring boiling water into a cup in which some of the tea leaves have been placed, and it would, perhaps, be well if we followed, their example, in stead of allowing it, as many do, to boil, as if the whole object was to extract tbe bit ter tannin. We do injustice to the genial herb whose native country is wrapped in mystery, although it is louna wild in India by making lea before the tea bell rings. Bazar. o m EXPEEIMEXTS WITH TUBERCULAR PaKA sites. The London correspondent of X. Y. World says Prof. Tyndall has just made public the-results of experiments made by Dr. Koch, of Berlin, on tuber cular disease. It was known before that the disease was communicable, but Koch has ascertained the exact nature of the parasite which causes consumption. : He has propagated it artificially and killed aDimals with parasites thns produced. Matter expectorated from the lungs of consumptive persons has been lound to be swarming with parasites which are highly infective. It is hoped that Koch will develop a harmless form of tbe tuber cular parasite which by inoculation may prevent consumption and .thus check a scourge which according to Kock's calcu lation carries off one seventh of the human race. ' . , - i r Mf ij . JQwose .Insects. ti'. When .a dish oL oranges is? seen on the table for dessert, the fact is hardly realized that in all probability their surface is the ' habitation of: an insect of the Coccus family. This tiny creature is found on the orange skin in every stage; of. trans- l or m anon, lrom tbe egg to the perfect in sect, daring the winter months, instead of , remaining dormant in the cold weather, as is the case with most of the insect tribe. It would hardly be possible" to find a St. Michael's or Tangerine .orange; that , bad not hundreds of these little creatures in various stages of development on its sur- lace, i demons, too, are frequently cov ered. "Upon inspection, the skin of an orange will be found to be dotted over with brownish t scarlet, spots, of various . sizes. . These specks . can be , easily re moved by a t needle j and when placed under a microscope an interesting scene is presented, consisting of a large number of eggs, which are oval white bodies, standing. on end, like little bags of flour, some of the inhabitants of which' may very probably be seen in process of emerging from the opened end of the egg. The female insect upon leaving the egg has six legs, two long hair-like appen dages and no wings; it thrusts a sucker into the orange in order to obtain a nour ishment, and never moves again, passing through the various stages of develop ment until it lays its eggs and dies. In the case of the male insect, the chrysalis after a short period opens and the insect flies off. The male is supplied with wings twice the length of its body, and each of the legs has a hook-like projection. It has four eyes and. two antenna?, and is so tiny that it cannot be seen when flying. From 6ome parts of Spain oranges come to us having their rind covered with a coccus of quite a different type. The sur face of oranges,- indeed, affords the pos sessor of a microscope an infinite amount ot interest and amusement. Chamber' Journal. , Burdette on Home. Home is more to a woman than a man. It is her temple. She is its goddess, its priestess but oftener its janitor. A mau doesn't look so longingly at theold home, though it uever costs him a cent, bought all his clothes and sent him to college. A man likes his home when he gets acquaint ed in it, because there his stupidity passes for the prolounuest wisdom. His jokes are all laughed at (though it needs only a glossary to get at their meaning) if he only indicates tbe laughing place. When a man dies he is wept for at home, but the cold world moves along as if nothing had happened; fond lovers come to his graveyard even, wear his tombstone smooth sitting on it, contract bad poetry and worse rheumatism, and burden the air with labial confectionery. I have heard that there were skeletons in many homes. They never get there un less they are brought. Robert J. Bur dette. "Lifting." When an invitation is being given ver bally to a funeral in ScotlanU, the person invited usually asks, "When do yoo lift?" meaning, "At what hour is the luneral to take place." The manner of conveying the coffin from the house to the place of interment, still followed in Eaglesham, a village in the south of Renfrewshire, abundantly explains this phrase. As can be well enough understood, hearses and coaches are institutions belonging to towns and cities, not to villages. In the latter the coffin is borne to the grave on three poles, which are'1 passed under it, long enough to leave a sufficient portion for two men to grasp on either 6ide. Of course, it is impossible to place these "spokes" in position in the house, so a couplo of stools are brought out to the street, the coffin is placed upon them, and when the cortege is ready to-go the spokes are passed under, the colhn is lifted, and the procession moves off. Burning the Army Worm. A dense column of army worms was discovered moving upon a patch of corn on the farm of Messrs. Albro & Crawford ot Craw ford's Corners, in Holmdel, N. J., with the steadiness of veterans. Extra help was hastily called, who ran deep furrows and ditches around the field and sunk very deep holes every few feet. When the worms reached these' furrows they, tumbled in by thousands, and were de-' stroyed by pouring kerosene npon them and igniting it. A near neighbor of the Crawfords, for lack of time to ditch, strewed straw all around his lot. This was soon alive with the worms, when kerosene was poured upon it and fired. . m t3T". "Dead drunk" is described by savants of the Paris Biological Society to be a condition in which there is a propor tion of one part of alcohol to 195 parts of blood in tbe circulation. Should the pro portion ever come to be one part of alcohol . to 100 of blood, death would ensue. This might happen, and, in fact, has happened repeatedly, where a very large quantity oi alcoholic, liquor is swallowed at one time and quickly. Iu ordinary drinking con sciousness is lost, and .with it . the power to drink more, before . the proportion of alcohol in the circulation becomes fatal. A Ceow Captubed by a Tuetlb.- A few days ago Edward Finnessey of Med way, Mass., observed a flock of crows hovering above one of their number and making a great noise. The bird was -on the ground, apparently disabled, bat by closer observation it was discovered that it had been securely caught by a huge mud turtle. The reptile refused to break his hold, and the crow's leg was broken in the struggle. Boston Journal. s . Between the foot of Lavefton Mountain and the Mississippi River was just enough space for a railroad, and it was utilized for that purpose; but the jar of the trains is supposed to have loosened the great mass of earth and rock, and for weeks the mountain moved very slowly into the river, shoving the tracks far oat into the water,' and only coming to a standstill after going about a hundred feet. ' , ' ,'
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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